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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a new superseding indictment from a grand jury against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), alleging millions of dollars were secretly funneled to extremist groups.
According to Just the News, the indictment alleges the SPLC used $4.1 million in tax-exempt donations to pay individuals inside extremist organizations and influence members to join hate groups.
DOJ issues indictment against the dark money laundering operation, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
The SPLC got caught taking money from donors to stage hate crimes and was really funding the same hate it claimed to fight.
The SPLC set up fake entities to fund these “filed… pic.twitter.com/Iu71azE1TN
— The SCIF (@TheSCIF) June 3, 2026
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The Israeli ambassador to the United States is slamming Hezbollah’s rejection of a peace agreement between Israel and Lebanon, saying they are “trying to destroy that hope.”
“There was real hope at the negotiating table for a new chapter of security and peace,” Ambassador Yechiel Leiter wrote on X. “Hezbollah and Iran are trying to destroy that hope. They must not succeed.”
Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based, Iran-backed militant group, was not involved in the negotiations taking part in Washington over the last several days, though it is the one striking Israeli troops in southern Lebanon and northern Israel.
“Israel will defend its citizens,” Leiter wrote. “Lebanon deserves a future shaped by its government-not by an Iranian-backed terrorist organization.”
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Nithya Raman speaks at her election night event as early Los Angeles mayoral returns show Spencer Pratt ahead of her.
Spencer Pratt’s stunning Los Angeles mayoral surge now has a viral election-night reaction to go with it.
Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman became visibly emotional as the early mayoral numbers put Pratt in second place and left her runoff path looking increasingly difficult.
The video does not show a race that is officially over. It does show the moment the progressive favorite realized the math was moving hard against her.
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Adam Hamawy, a controversial candidate who previously volunteered with an al-Qaeda-linked group, has won the Democratic primary for retiring Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman’s (D-NJ) seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Hamawy, who was endorsed by the so-called “Squad,” became a lightning rod for criticism on the campaign trail due to his intense criticism of Israel and his having volunteered with the Benevolence International Foundation in Bosnia, per the New York Post:
An Iraq War veteran, Hamawy has made national headlines for saving Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s (D-Ill) life after a helicopter crash as well as for his volunteer work in the Gaza Strip.
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The CEOs of several major artificial intelligence companies are urging members of Congress to adopt new laws that would make it harder for bad actors to develop biological weapons using their technology.
Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Microsoft AI’s Mustafa Suleyman are among the signatories on a public letter calling for laws requiring companies that sell synthetic DNA and RNA to screen customers and orders to prevent the misuse of genetic material.
Organized by the nonpartisan Institute for Progress and the right-leaning Foundation for American Innovation, the letter acknowledges that given the pace of AI development, “there is a real possibility that the knowledge barriers which have historically prevented bad actors from obtaining biological weapons will meaningfully erode.”
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It’s amusing, but Newsweek explains the elections in Colombia this way:
Colombia’s pro-Donald Trump candidate Abelardo de la Espriella won the first round of the country’s presidential election on Sunday and will now face left-leaning senator Iván Cepeda in a runoff later this month.
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The secondary market for decades old, low-tech John Deere tractors has been booming for years as farmers have sought reliable tractors that they can actually fix without having to deal with John Deere’s repair monopoly. A Canadian company has seen that demand and came up with a radical thought: What if they made a new, repairable, “no-tech” tractor to solve what has become a gigantic pain point for farmers?
Alberta’s Ursa Ag says that it has been inundated with demand after announcing its tractor, which costs roughly half as much as a Deere and has the benefit of not being a repair nightmare. We have for years covered the frustration that farmers have felt as they have been locked out of their Deere tractors with digital rights management systems that prevent them from fixing their machinery, tractors that won’t run because of minor sensor failures, and crops that literally die on the vine as they wait for an “authorized” repair person to fix tractors during critical harvesting periods.
U.S. sanctions Cuba’s president, others in latest move to pressure leaders – National– globalnews.ca
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The United States has imposed sanctions on Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, along with his wife and three other individuals, according to a filing Thursday from the U.S. Treasury Department. It’s the latest Trump administration move to pressure the island’s leadership.
Included in the sanctions are Alejandro Castro Espín, the sole son of former President Raúl Castro and Vilma Espín. He served as an adviser to Cuba’s Defense and National Security Commission and was present when Raúl Castro greeted then-U.S. President Barack Obama in Havana during a historic March 2016 meeting. Castro Espín’s son, Raúl Alejandro Castro Calis, was also listed.
The sanctions come after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order expanding sanctions against the island and has been threatening military action ever since ousting Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in January and then ordering an energy blockade that choked off fuel shipments to Cuba. That has led to severe blackouts, food shortages and an economic collapse across the island.
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A warm enough friendship can survive a few heated words.
That was the gist of President Donald Trump’s dismissal of a widely reported confrontation Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“We’ve worked very well together, I like Bibi a lot,” Trump said. “And I’ve worked very well with him.”
WARNING: The following social media post contains vulgar language that some may find offensive.
Trump on Axios report that he told Netanyahu “you’re f*cking crazy”:
“I did…
I was a little bit perturbed at him, constantly fighting with Lebanon….
You know, at some point I said we’re going to stop this.” pic.twitter.com/ycudi3RGyf
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) June 3, 2026
Trump says Pulte won’t be his nominee for director of national intelligence Federal News Network
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This takes us to an eye-opening new Gallup poll that was released on June 3:
Approval of same-sex marriage, moral acceptance of gay and lesbian relations, and endorsement of gender changes are all down from peaks reached in the early 2020s.
While most Americans still favor legal same-sex marriages, the 65% who do so today is down six percentage points from the peak in 2022 and 2023. Similarly, the percentage viewing gay or lesbian relations as morally acceptable, 62%, has not been lower since 2016. And the share of Americans who consider changing one’s gender morally acceptable has declined eight points over the past five years, to 38%.
On three key LGBTQ issues — same-sex marriage, the morality of homosexuality, and gender identity — Gallup’s polling data told the same exact story: Popularity for all three skyrocketed between the 2010s and the early 2020s. The future, it seemed, was pro-trans and pro-LGBTQ.
But over the past few years, the pendulum swung HARD in the opposite direction:
Between 1996 and 2022, the percentage of U.S. adults in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage increased by 44 points, from 27% to 71%. In 2024, the figure dipped to 69%, and it has shown a marginal decline each year since.
Gallup first asked about the morality of same-sex relations in 2001, when 40% said they were morally acceptable. By 2022, 71% held that view, before a sharp drop to 64% in 2023, holding at about that level during the past three years.
When Gallup first asked about changing one’s gender in 2021, 46% found it morally acceptable, and 51% found it morally wrong. Today, those numbers stand at 38% and 57%, respectively.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center built its brand on fighting hate groups. Donors gave it more than $100 million a year because they believed the SPLC was destroying the KKK, the neo-Nazis, the Aryan Nations. But… a new federal indictment says the SPLC quietly funneled about $4.1 million in donor money to the super-pale leaders it was publicly attacking. (Doug Ross)
the most explosive allegations in this indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) are not simply financial irregularities—they amount to accusations of a long-running scheme to secretly funnel donor money to leaders of white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and Ku Klux Klan organizations while publicly fundraising off opposition to those same groups.
Both the national president of the American Front and the Imperial Wizard of the United Klan were allegedly on the SPLC payroll.
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The agreement between Israel and Lebanon, reached after a fourth round of US-mediated talks in Washington, is contingent on the “evacuation of all [Hezbollah] operatives” from an area between the Israeli border and the Litani river, about 30km (19 miles) to the north, which is currently occupied by Israeli ground forces.
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Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old Briton who died in police custody in December, got a death sentence for a thoughtcrime he never committed.
Newly released bodycam footage of Nowak’s arrest shows police arriving at a residential driveway to find Nowak bleeding on the ground. A Sikh man named Vickrum Digwa, who would eventually be convicted of fatally stabbing Nowak with a blade that only Sikhs are allowed to carry in Britain, falsely claimed to police that Nowak had treated him with racial animus. Evidently believing Digwa’s accusations but not Nowak’s cries for help, the police rolled Nowak’s limp body over and placed handcuffs on his wrists. In response to his repeated pleas for treatment of his stab wounds, police can be heard telling him, “I don’t think you have [been stabbed], mate.” He died moments after police read him his rights as an accused criminal.
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US President Donald Trump said he hopes to eventually meet Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen publicly since being named supreme leader and is believed to have been wounded in the strikes.
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- President Trump said he hopes to eventually meet Mojtaba Khamenei, who succeeded his father, Ali Khamenei, after US-Israeli strikes.
- Khamenei, 56, has not been seen publicly since being named supreme leader and is believed to have been wounded in the strikes.
- Iran’s Revolutionary Guards launched an attack on Kuwait’s airport on Wednesday, claiming it was retaliation for US strikes on an Iranian oil tanker and island.
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Senate Republicans launched debate on their party-line immigration enforcement bill Wednesday — a major step after nearly two weeks of delay — but they are facing lingering internal concerns over a proposed “Anti-Weaponization Fund” that could still scuttle the legislation.
Senators voted 53-46 on party lines to advance the bill, which would provide roughly $70 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other Department of Homeland Security agencies.
An updated bill released Wednesday omits $1 billion in Secret Service security funding that had been included in an earlier draft and could have been used for President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project. POLITICO first reported the decision to drop the funding last month.
It also strips out Justice Department funding unrelated to the controversial settlement fund — a move that GOP leaders made in hopes of making it harder to include language restricting or eliminating the fund. Top Republicans have warned that adding such language could threaten to tank the overall bill.
“Right now, the goal is to get the base bill across the finish line, and so hopefully all of our members who have amendment ideas will … keep in mind the need that we’ve got to keep the bill together and make sure we’ve got 50 votes for it at the end,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said.
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SANTIAGO, Chile — Thousands of students, teachers and social activists clashed with police in the Chilean capital Wednesday during a massive march against President José Antonio Kast’s education cuts and austerity measures.
Since taking office on March 11, ultraconservative Kast has pledged to cut roughly $6 billion in public spending over 18 months in an effort to improve the country’s fiscal accounts. As part of this ambitious austerity plan, his government is forcing a nearly 3% budget cut across all ministries.
The measures have drawn criticism not only from opposition parties but also from some sectors within the governing coalition.
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MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday again accused the U.S. of meddling in Mexico’s internal affairs after The Times published a report about two Mexican governors from her party who have had their U.S. visas revoked amid criminal probes into their possible links to organized crime.
Sheinbaum, speaking at her daily news conference, said it was up to the governors, Alfonso Durazo of Sonora and Américo Villarreal Anaya of Tamaulipas, to respond to the allegations against them.
But she questioned the rationale of the U.S. investigations, part of a sweeping Trump administration campaign against high-level Mexican officials suspected of aiding cartels.
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) announced Wednesday that she will be filing charges against a Code Pink organizer after the leftist allegedly assaulted her as she was leaving a House hearing room.
The altercation allegedly happened as Secretary of State Marco Rubio was testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee regarding the FY2027 State Department budget request and the ongoing war with Iran.
“The head honcho of Code Pink here on Capitol Hill decided to try to harass me as I was leaving my hearing with Rubio and smacked my arm,” Luna posted on X following the confrontation. “I have no issues answering questions but the moment you touch me you cross a line.”
Luna added in a subsequent post that the alleged assault happened after she questioned the secretary about Code Pink’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), saying “their organization followed me out, berated me, and then their head person here in DC smacked me. I will be filing charges.”
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Two scientists at a U.S. government lab were charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa and lying about it during interviews with investigators at a Michigan airport, authorities said Tuesday.
A criminal complaint was unsealed in federal court in Detroit against Vincent Munster, who is chief of the virus ecology section at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, and Claude Kwe, who works with him.
Munster and Kwe were stopped at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in January after a flight from Paris and nine days in the Republic of Congo. An outbreak of the mpox disease has been linked to more than 2,000 deaths in Congo, a vast region in central Africa, though a two-year outbreak was declared over in April.
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President Donald Trump claimed Tehran pledged never to obtain a nuclear weapon, among other eye-catching claims, in a Wednesday interview at a crucial junction of the war with Iran.
In an interview with the New York Post’s Pod Force One podcast, the president gave updates on negotiations with Iran, its impact on his domestic agenda, and his perspective on political developments in the United States as the midterm races heat up.
Here are the biggest takeaways from Trump’s latest interview.
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“This is a frivolous lawsuit. ICE is committed to transparency, and Delaney Hall complies with all required state and local laws.”
The Department of Homeland Security has claimed that a lawsuit filed by New Jersey officials against the private operator of the Delaney Hall detention facility is “frivolous,” saying that New Jersey officials have been allowed access to inspect the facility.
The lawsuit was filed by New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and New Jersey Department of Health Commissioner Raynard Washington against GEO Group, the operator of the facility, on Tuesday. The suit is requesting that a judge allow officials to have full access to the facility for an inspection amid allegations of unsanitary and unsafe conditions inside.
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Senate lawmakers from both parties were blindsided by President Donald Trump’s decision to tap Bill Pulte as the acting director of national intelligence on Tuesday and are questioning his qualifications for the post.
The selection seemed to come as a surprise to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, as many senators said they knew nothing about the acting intelligence chief.
“I don’t see any evidence of qualifications for that job, but I’m willing to listen,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee and recently lost his primary to Trump-backed Ken Paxton.
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A longtime Fourth of July parade in Los Angeles has been canceled after organizers said budget cuts from Democrat Mayor Karen Bass’ administration left them facing tens of thousands of dollars in new city fees.
The Sunland/Tujunga/Shadow Hills Rotary Club announced that this year’s Independence Day parade will not move forward after city officials informed organizers they would now be responsible for covering costs previously provided by the city.
“Cuts in the City’s budget from the Mayor’s office meant that city services are no longer provided free of charge for first amendment events such as our parade, and sponsoring organizations need to pay for the City services that ensure a safe event,” the organization said in a statement.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is urging Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) to make sure an illegal alien, accused of raping a teen girl, stays locked up in jail rather than being released back into the community.
Cristian Romario Saenz-Argueta, a 31-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador, was arrested in Prince William County, Virginia, on May 26 and charged with one count of rape by force, threat, or intimidation, and two counts of carnal knowledge of a child between the ages of 13 and 14.
According to police, Saenz-Argueta used social media to contact a girl who was under 15 years old, portraying himself as 18 years old. Police allege that in November of last year, Saenz-Argueta met up with the young girl in a parking lot and sexually assaulted her.
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For months, the loudest voices in artificial intelligence—including OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei—warned that entry-level white-collar jobs were headed for extinction. In recent weeks, both have walked back those statements.
And according to Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S., who oversees a workforce of more than 350,000 employees, the outcry wasn’t just a prediction gone wrong—it was fearmongering.
“There was a little bit of fearmongering from reading about the fact that there’s going to be a collapse of jobs,” Kumar said at Fortune’s COO Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona on Monday. “I think there will be more jobs.”
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The court has granted Fulton County’s request to unseal their case against the Department of Justice, who issued a subpoena seeking the identity information of everyone associated with the 2020 election.
That’s according to a statement released Sunday from Robb Pits, chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Fulton County.
The county filed a motion to quash to keep the DOJ from enforcing the subpoena.
“The recent decision to unseal means that you will be able to follow future developments because the public and media now have access to the docket and the documents filed in the case,” Pitts said.
The subpoena comes after the FBI in January went to a Fulton County elections warehouse and seized ballots and other documents from the 2020 election, which Georgia’s certified totals showed Trump lost in the state to Biden by 11,779 votes out of nearly 5 million cast…
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For more than a century, biology has been guided by the principles of inheritance first described by Gregor Mendel through his famous pea plant experiments. While those rules explain how many genetic traits are passed from parents to offspring, scientists have also known that DNA sequences are not the whole story.
In addition to genes themselves, parents can pass along epigenetic changes. These are chemical modifications that affect how genes function without altering the underlying DNA code.
Now, a new federally funded study in mice suggests that some of these inherited epigenetic marks do not follow Mendel’s classic laws. Researchers found that about 7% of the epigenetic inheritance patterns they examined behaved in unexpected ways. The study also uncovered rare forms of inheritance previously seen in plants and flies but not in mammals.